“An Evening of German Music” is the theme of a Nov. 4 program on the Washington State University campus. The 8 p.m. concert at Bryan Hall Auditorium is open to the public without charge.
The program will celebrate the musical contributions of German composers
who lived during the Baroque, Romantic and Twentieth Century periods representing various genre, instrumentation and sentiments in music, said Lori Wiest of the WSU School of Music and Theatre Arts.
The concert will include music by Johann Sebastian Bach for organ and
trumpet, performed by Jill Schneider and David Turnbull, and an organ solo, composed by Sigfrid Karg-Elert and performed by Schneider. The program also will features waltzes for four hands at the piano by Johannes Brahms and performed by Nancy and James Schoepflin. The concert continues with songs by Richard Strauss and performed by Julie Anne Wieck and Gerald Berthiaume, and songs by Franz Schubert performed by John Weiss and Margaret Brink. A Paul Hindemith sonata for two flutes will be performed by Ann Yasinitsky and Sophia Tegart, while two songs by Johannes Brahms will be featured by Sheila Converse, Meredith Arksey and Sheila Zilar. Two compositions by Max Bruch for viola, clarinet and piano will be presented by Arksey, James Schoepflin and Michelle Mielke, and a third composition, “Kol Nidrei,” will be performed on cello and piano by Eugene Zenzen and Zilar. The WSU Concert Choir, directed by Wiest, will perform a motet by Hugo Distler.
The concert is a collaboration between students and faculty and held in conjunction with International Week on the WSU campus. It is sponsored by the School of Music and Theatre Arts.
